The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and the island councilor for Public Works, Jacobo Medina, announced this Wednesday that the project to comprehensively transform the Altavista neighborhood, where around 42% of the island's population is concentrated, has already been awarded
This project, awarded by the Island Area of Public Works, includes the provision of sidewalks, trees, and shaded areas, a stormwater drainage system, and public lighting for the streets of Altavista. This neighborhood emerged in the 1960s with people originally from the north of Lanzarote who, due to the boom in the canning and tourism sectors of Lanzarote, settled in this area with self-built houses by families.
Jacobo Medina has highlighted that, from the Ministry of Public Works, under his direction, different projects are being promoted for the elaboration to continue strengthening public works in Lanzarote, and to improve the facilities where the island's population resides.
The design of the urban intervention in this neighborhood of Altavista will follow the line of the project that has made the city of Arrecife a pioneer in the Canary Islands for the renaturalization of cities in the face of climate change, and which was presented a few weeks ago by the mayor Yonathan de León, and Julieta Shallenberg Rodríguez, vice-minister of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Energy, with the ecologist Salvador Rueda as the author of this pilot plan, to turn Arrecife into a healthier city with more green areas
The transformation of Altavista, in phases
The urban rehabilitation of the Altavista neighborhood will be carried out in phases. The first phase will focus on the surroundings of the new nursing home of the Cruz Blanca, next to the Altavista church and Los Luchadores Park. A nursing home, within a comprehensive building, owned by the Diocese, and which as of Thursday has the urban planning license
This residence, which aims to rehabilitate and transform an unfinished work that had been forgotten for years and was vacated by the Local Police, includes an intervention in the old religious facility, known as Cruz Blanca, for a new care center, including a senior residence, which will be managed by Cáritas of the Diocese of Canarias.
Modernization of Arrecife's neighborhoods
This award for the Altavista urban transformation project joins the one already underway for the comprehensive modernization of the Argana Baja and Argana Alta neighborhoods, awarded last year by the Arrecife City Council's Public Works Department, under the direct supervision of Mayor Yonathan de León.
Alongside these neighborhoods, the Arrecife City Council is undertaking the modernization of the urban image of the Tinsasoria neighborhood, with social housing, involving a municipal investment exceeding three million euros. Works in Tinasoria resumed this week.